Addie Prewitt Laborde

A finance and estate planning expert, Addie is passionate about helping families and businesses secure their futures — whether it’s crafting a family estate plan or securing the future of businesses and multi-million dollar estates.

Key Aspects of Expertise:

Estate Planning and Succession: Protect your income and wealth before it’s too late. Planning your estate is a continuous process as you amass properties. With estate planning your estate will never go to unintended beneficiaries. You ensure your family’s way of life while minimizing taxes and disputes.

Mergers and Acquisitions: Curate essential buy/sell agreements for businesses with clear terms and mechanisms for dispute resolution. Addie holds your hand through Business Valuation, Acquisition Agreements, and Due Diligence to protect your interest and ensure accurate valuation.

Contracts: Draft and negotiate contracts that safeguard your business interests. Addie ensures that all business contracts are clear, enforceable, regularly reviewed for compliance, and organized for banks and financial institutions. Addie also ensures that contracts for C-level hires include non-compete clauses and confidentiality agreements.

Education:

• Boston University School of Law, Master of Laws in Taxation
• Louisiana State University, Juris Doctor

Notable Work:

• Represented individuals and businesses in controversy matters with the IRS
• Negotiated, drafted, and provided tax structuring advice for purchase agreements, leases, loans, and other commercial transactions
• Prepared waterfall distribution model for private equity fund from $200 million leveraged distribution from portfolio company
• Drafted tax opinions for €12 billion debt restructuring and internal restructuring of multi-national corporations.
• Prepared estate planning documents, such as wills, powers of attorneys, health care powers of attorneys, and HIPAA authorizations, and advised techniques for the transfer of wealth and management and protection of assets, including gifting and creation of trusts and LLCs
• Probated will and completed successions to transfer assets from estates to heirs and legatees
• Negotiated and prepared stock purchase agreements, membership interest purchase agreements and asset purchase agreements and all ancillary documents for buyers and sellers of businesses
• Drafted credit agreements for banks based on credit approval packages of underwriters, including amendments to terms of loans and lines of credit and preparation of guarantees and letters of credit
• Represented private equity firms with state audit defense

Bar Admissions:

• Louisiana
• Texas

Favorite Core Value:

Live Your Best Life

Outside of work, Addie is the proud wife of a small business owner and mom to two energetic young boys. Family means the world to her, and she enjoys volunteering at her kids’ schools and coaching their sports teams—soccer, flag football, or baseball, depending on the season! She and her husband own A-1 Pharmacy, which has locations in Metairie and Hammond, Louisiana.